Straubing / Germany, February 2006

Dear friends,

Already the year is well underway. I hope it proves to be a successful one for you – both professionally and personally.

ISC is currently undergoing a period of change and is embracing the technological age. This will become more apparent as time goes on.

Publication – IJAA - now electronic

The new system allows for easy submission of manuscripts from anywhere in the world; it speeds up the peer-review and publication process and allows you to track your submission through your own personalised homepage.

Changes in the management of the ISC have been prompted by Professor Faridah Moosdeen’s early retirement due to illness. Dr. Fiona MacKenzie is now the ISC Executive Co-ordinator: please direct all enquiries regarding the ISC to her at the address below.
She will be working together with Dr. Morimasa Yagisawa, Tokyo, Japan (yagisawa@antibiotics.or.jp) who is the Executive Director of ISC.

I’d like to take this opportunity to highlight the ISC Disease Management Series (DMS). The DMS meetings aim to discuss the optimal management of common infectious and malignant diseases together with well-known experts in their field. Full details of the programme are available via www.ischemo.org/08_Meetings

The next DMS meeting is entitled “Modern Pharmacotherapy in Urology” and takes place in association with the 16th Annual Assembly of the International Medical Association “Bulgaria” (IMAB) in Varna, Bulgaria, 4 –6 May 2006. Please note; deadline for abstracts is 1 March 2006.

Other ISC / ISC related meetings taking place in the first half of 2006 are:

3-4 May 06. Singapore. Lancet Asia Medical Forum “Preparing for Pandemic Influenza”
22-24 June 06. Weimar, Germany. Urinary Tract Infection (DMS)
25-26 June 06. Catania, Italy. 15th Mediterranean Congress of Chemotherapy

On a personal note – please note that my contact E-mail address has changed. Please see below.
With warmest regards